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Yu Ming sat up at this time, laughed and said, "We are all husband and wife, and there is no one else here, what is there to be embarrassed to say!" ”

After that, he said with a straight face: "Dong Li, now in the harem, including you, I have a total of six wives, I hope you can get along in harmony and be like sisters, so that I can rest assured that I can go to the south and the north to fight!" ”

After hearing this, Dong Li also took out an arrow from the pillow and said solemnly: "Brother Ming, don't worry, Dong Li must get along well with a few sisters, and listen to a few sisters for anything!" If there is a violation, it is like this arrow! ”

With that, she snapped the arrow so hard that it snapped into two with a "creak".

"Dongli, how can it be so serious! What else do you swear? Yuming was made to laugh and cry by her act of breaking arrows and swearing.

"If there is any quarrel, or if you feel wronged, just tell Shumeng. If you can't even solve your dreams, then tell me! Yuming reminded her. Now Shumeng is the queen and the master of the harem, so naturally she will handle the big and small matters of the harem. Yuming also didn't want to put his main energy on dealing with harem affairs.

Dong Li naturally agreed, saying that he would definitely do it.

After the husband and wife kept warm in bed for a while, Yu Mingfang got up and got dressed, ready to go to the court meeting.

Now that the world has become divided, how to unify the world as soon as possible is the most important and urgent thing in the Great Zhou at present.

Yu Ming put on the dragon robe, accompanied by two palace maids, and walked into the main hall of the palace. At this time, the ministers who had been waiting here for a long time immediately knelt down and kowtowed together: "Long live my emperor!" Banzai! Hooray! ”

After Yu Ming sat down on the dragon chair, he looked around and couldn't help but think of the time when he had a quarrel with Mubashaf, the Great Food Emissary. It's been twelve years in a flash, and now I've become the master of this place and become the emperor, but I didn't expect it at all.

"Everyone, love Qing Ping!" Yu Ming said loudly.

"Emperor Xie!" At this time, the ministers got up and patted the dust on their bodies, and then stood on both sides with their hands tied.

"In the future, don't bow down!" Yu Ming said loudly at this moment. He was disgusted by the insulting ritual of kneeling.

"This ...... Your Majesty, it's not good to do this! Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui glanced at each other, and couldn't help but look at each other.

"Yes! Your Majesty, if you don't kneel down and kowtow, how can you show respect for Your Majesty? Du Ruhui also persuaded.

"Two Aiqing, if you really respect me and don't kneel down and kowtow, you will be respected. But if there is really no respect in your heart, even if you kneel down and kowtow, it may not be your heart's will. Yu Ming said with a straight face at this time: "At the beginning, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty acted perversely, causing anger and resentment, and many ministers and surnames hated him to the core. Although they still knelt down when they saw Yang Guang's face, it did not prevent them from rebelling one after another. ”

So, this prostration has been cancelled from now on. When you see me, you don't have to bow down anymore! Yu Ming waved his hand and said.

The ministers also felt that it was a good thing for them to cancel the prostration. Although it does not conform to the regulations of previous dynasties. But the Great Zhou Dynasty was originally a new dynasty, and the new dynasty had new regulations, Yuming took the initiative to be willing to think about them and cancel the kneeling ceremony that made people's waist and knees ache, so why should he take the initiative to find guilt?

"Your Majesty Xie is considerate of the ministers!" Under Du Ruhui's leadership, the ministers also nodded yes one after another. Since then, the Zhou Dynasty has canceled the kneeling ceremony from top to bottom. People kneel only when they pay tribute to their dead ancestors and heroes, and when they worship the gods.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I built at the beginning of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and there are many things in front of us, the most important of which is to unify the whole country as soon as possible!" Yu Ming looked around for a moment, and then said eloquently: "Now that the world is divided, our great enemies are Li Yuan and Du Fuwei, how to eliminate these two forces as soon as possible, please give your opinion!" ”

The ministers actually guessed that Yu Ming would mention this matter immediately, which was also what they were most concerned about.

The eldest grandson Wuji immediately came out and said: "Your Majesty, although the strength of our army is stronger than that of the Tang Army and the Jianghuai Army, in the previous war with the Turks, more than 80,000 troops were lost, and the difference in strength between the two sides is quite close. Moreover, the most disadvantageous thing at the moment is that Li Yuan and Du Fuwei are secretly colluding, and if we attack one side, the other side may attack our army. Therefore, our army will face the difficulty of fighting on two fronts. I hope that the military department will take it into account when formulating the battle plan! ”

The words of the eldest grandson Wuji made all the ministers nod yes. Although the new foreign minister is average in commanding the war, he has a good strategic vision, and he can see at a glance the dilemma that the Zhou army is currently facing.

"Judging from the current situation, the Tang Army is stronger than the Jianghuai Army in terms of territory, generals, troops, and grain and grass. If you want to destroy one of the forces first, Weichen thinks that he should attack the Jianghuai army first! Hu Sizheng also made a suggestion at this time.

After hearing this, Yu Ming also said slightly: "Hu Aiqing's words are exactly what I wanted. At present, the strength of our army is only slightly stronger than Li Tang, but it is certainly far inferior to the sum of the two forces of Li Tang and Jianghuai Army. If Li Tang is attacked first, I am afraid that there will be no progress for a while and a half, but it will attract the prying eyes of the Jianghuai army. Therefore, in line with the principle of first making it easy and then making it difficult, it is the best policy to take a defensive position against Li Tang and an offensive against the Jianghuai Army! ”

Yu Ming's words set the tone for this discussion of the battle plan. Next, the ministers began to rack their brains about how to destroy the Jianghuai army.

Red sleeves immediately said: "Your Majesty, judging from the intelligence collected by the concubines, the Jianghuai Army still has more than 100,000 troops, mainly distributed along the river from Jiangxia to Jiangdu. Their cavalry was not much, only more than 10,000 men. There are about 200,000 infantry, and the rest of the horses are all sailors, with nearly 1,000 large and small ships, and the strength of the sailors is far stronger than our army. Although the area south of the Yangtze River is a flat river, there is a dense water network and rivers and lakes. According to the opinion of the concubines, the attack on the Jianghuai army mainly lies in the battle of the water division. As long as our army can defeat the Jianghuai Naval Division, then it will be half the battle! ”

"Concubine Hong's words are very reasonable, if it is only a land battle, our army only needs to dispatch 200,000 soldiers and horses to annihilate the Jianghuai army in one fell swoop. But if you fight on water, it's much more difficult. Wei Chi Jingde also said with a look of emotion.

"If you want to talk about the battle of the sailors, it depends on our Zhou Dadu!" Yu Ming looked at Zhou Tao with a smile at this time, he was the newly appointed director of the Navy Division and the Admiral of the Navy Division, overseeing the officers and soldiers and ships of the National Navy Division.

Zhou Tao hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, the last general has been training sailors all along, preparing to fight with the enemy. The Jianghuai Army, located in the south of the Yangtze River, is the imaginary enemy that our army's naval division is most concerned about. Many of the exercises, trainings, weapons and equipment of our army's naval divisions are aimed at the Jianghuai naval division......"

He talked for a long time, and the ministers finally heard it, that is, if he fought at sea, Zhou Tao was absolutely confident of victory. But if it is fighting in the Yangtze River, it is difficult to say.

After hearing this, Yu Ming couldn't help frowning and asked, "Admiral Zhou, didn't you say that our warships are far superior to the Jianghuai Naval Division in terms of size, attack, defense, speed, and soldier quality?" But why can you only win at sea, but not necessarily in the middle of the river? ”

Zhou Tao hurriedly explained: "Back to Your Majesty, this is because the ships of our army are all built in the harbor, and in order to resist the sea breeze, the hulls are relatively large. Although they have a sturdy hull, they are fast, resistant to wind and waves, and have strong attack power. But there are not many of them. At present, there are more than about large and small ships of the naval division, which is far less than that of the Jianghuai army......"

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment, and then continued: "If you are fighting at sea, because the sea is wide, there is a lot of room for maneuver. The ships of our naval division are fast, and they can destroy the enemy in mobile warfare. Even if there are many enemy ships and our army is at a disadvantage, we can rely on speed to get out of the battlefield in a short time and return to a safe port......"

"But not on the Yangtze River. The river is much narrower than the sea. Our warships are too large and their movements are very inconvenient, especially their rotation is not flexible, and in this case, the superiority of the Jianghuai army's naval divisions in numbers can be brought into play, and in addition, they have been fighting in the Jianghuai area for a long time. We are very familiar with the river conditions of the local rivers and lakes, and it will be very difficult for us to get out of the battlefield in a disadvantaged situation......" Zhou Tao said helplessly.

When the ministers heard this, they all frowned, thinking that this was still a big problem. If the water war could not be won, then the Zhou army would at most be able to occupy the place north of the Yangtze River, and would not be able to cross the river to reach the south of the Yangtze River, and it would not be able to completely defeat the Jianghuai army and destroy Du Fuwei.

However, Yu Ming stretched his brows and said disapprehantly: "Governor Zhou, don't worry about this matter. You can broaden your horizon and look beyond the Yangtze River. Since our army's naval division is good at naval warfare, it is not good at fighting in the river. Then why do we have to fight the enemy in the river? Why not fight at sea, where we are good at? ”

"But...... Your Majesty, if we don't defeat the Jianghuai Army's naval division in the Yangtze River, we won't be able to cross the Yangtze River, and we won't be able to exterminate Du Fuwei! Zhou Tao said with some trepidation.

Yu Ming smiled slightly and said: "Governor Zhou, we want to attack Jiangnan, but we are not the only one to cross the river!" It is completely possible to land from the sea. Think about it, when our army drives to the north bank of the Yangtze River and attracts all the ships of the Jianghuai Army's sailors into the Yangtze River, if you lead our Zhou Army's naval division to land in the enemy's rear, it will inevitably cause the enemy's morale to collapse suddenly...... For example, when the main forces of the enemy army gathered in Jiankang, Yuzhang, Panyang and other places, they got the news that our Great Zhou's army appeared in Hangzhou, Suzhou, Huiji and other places and conquered their lair. Do you think, does the Jianghuai Army still have the confidence to fight us? ”

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